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I'm a well-known mainframe performance guy, with almost 30 years of experience helping customers manage systems. I also dabble in lots of other technology. I've sought to widen the Performance role, incorporating aspects of infrastructural architecture.

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A couple of days ago I attended the pilot of a "Web 2.0 and System z" workshop in the Boeblingen lab. I'm pleased to say the room was full - both with IBMers and non-IBMers. And I think my presentation - which was basically a rant about Web 2.0 Behaviours and why we should adopt them as mainframe folks :-) - went OK. One of the things that was interesting about it was that on greeting Luis Suarez... [More]

The same Kevin Keller I mentioned in this blog post is running a one day pilot of a "Web 2.0 and System z" workshop on July 8th, in IBM Böblingen. It's designed for customers, though some of the audience will undoubtedly be IBMers. I've looked at the agenda and, while I'm on it, it's a great agenda. :-) Actually it has the highly-acclaimed Luis Suarez on the agenda as well. (I'm looking... [More]

Take a look at my German colleague Kevin Keller's new blog in Web 2.0 and z/OS. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at what runs on z/OS that the rest of the world would regard as modern . :-) I say "modern" rather than "Web 2.0" because I feel the latter term is generally overused. What is really to the point is quite how much stuff could (and in many cases should) be implemented on z/OS, e.g.... [More]

Nowadays - actually thenadays :-) but more so nowadays - the value of a web page is related to how well structured it is. Well structured from a mashup programmer's point of view... As I often say you have to assume that people will want to take your web pages and mash them up in ways you never thought likely. If your web page is hard to navigate, extract material from, etc then people will use... [More]

I presented a set of (someone else's) foils on Web 2.0 to my team meeting last week. (Interestingly, being 6 months old they were already way out of date - what with Twitter and all.) Remember I'm in a mainframe crowd of effectively "gurus". :-) So why should they be interested in new-fangled webby stuff? So I got to thinking... Dear reader, why should you care about Web 2.0? The minimal answer is... [More]